For five years of this blog’s existence, few loyal readers have witnessed how the love for food binds my family and I together. Tina, Gabby and I certainly love to eat! And our tastebuds have the same preferences either dining out or just eating within the comforts of our home. Although I know how to perk up some tasteful dishes too, the credit goes to my loving wife who devotes so much of her TIME and EFFORTS not only at work but at the kitchen department to fill up our tummies with not just mediocre cooking but feasts that we usually crave for!
Here are some of her masterpieces, at least for Gabby and me!
This dish has shrimps, green bell pepper in light and sweet soy sauce, if not oyster sauce. It’s too delicious, I forgot to ask her what it’s called! 
Vanhouten, sometimes Cadbury Chocolate Chamorado at Tuyo is one of our comfort foods! Even Gabby became biased with Champorado at Tuyo! Yes, our 8-year-old kiddo loves tuyo, he eats it also sans champorado but with rice and dips its shredded bits on vinegar! Regardless of the weather -rainy days or even when the sun is out; for breakfast or as late afternoon snack, this combo remains a personal favorite!
Ebi Tempura and Chicken Cordon Bleu. All.From.Scratch!
This one needs no introduction. Pass the vinegar, please! And let’s eat with bare hands, c’mmon! ;)
Bistek Tagalog with Blanched Veggies. I’m salivating now.
Some photographed pasta dishes the past months include this Crispy Noodle…
and the classic Creamy Carbonara with homemade Garlic Bread that she made for our birthdays (Gabby’s last October, and mine’s September). While Gabby dislikes bacon and only wants the pasta and the creamy cheesy buttery sauce, I love it up to its last bacon bits. LOL! 
For dessert, Maja Blanca con Maiz
For someone like Tina who doesn’t have formal background in culinary arts, and for Gabby and me, those dishes are already superb despite its few imperfections. As mentioned, hours are usually spent in preparing them. Time and efforts for the family are always priceless!
With those few compiled food photos, one of my suntok-sa-buwan-wishes of putting up our very own food place someday lives on. Let’s see if it will materialize someday. Who knows what destiny brings? I am only sure of the fact that we love food and we like to eat – a lot!!!
Part 1 of this blog’s series here : My Wife’s Culinary Prowess
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EMPAREDADOS or Native Hamburger/Sandwich PhP 80+. It’s a pair of fried buns with Vigan longganisa, mayonnaise filling. 
Tina and I were delighted that our preschooler son, Gabby was beginning to feed himself with adult food. He’s still picky on solid food and usually prefers chicken from Mcdonald’s. But last Sunday, he asked for two dishes – a soup and a dessert. So we ordered SEAFOOD CHOWDER, PhP 137 for him… 
Each plate of pasta and starters like salad (which we’ll try on our next visit) and soup comes with toasted bread. Unfortunately, Tina had preference to her order, and disliked mine. She had this CLASSIC CARBONARA PASTA, PhP 202.68.
It was a delight for me to see 
Although there’s a better version of Vigan empanada in Glorietta foodcourt and nothing beats the taste of the original Vigan empanada cooked and sold by the manangs in front of the church and plaza in Vigan, we found Mac’s deli Vigan empanada not that bad to satisfy one’s craving.
The plate had pieces of deep-fried pigskin, a.k.a. crunchy chicharon or pork cracklings, and few chunks of deep-fried pork knuckle and pork leg a.k.a. as crispy pata. She prepared it herself. I know it isn’t healthy, and to say that it’s fatty is such an understatement, but what can I do? Resistance is futile, LOL. I was weak to say no! It’s crunchy and cripsy and we don’t eat it daily anyway, LOL. We only eat it once in a blue moon (defensive!).
Its size was overwhelming!
I only saw its fraction as my wife and our housemaid already sliced it into half… Imagine its entirety!
Its sweet fruity scent emanated from its starchy and fibrous flesh.
SISIG BASKET : ingenious serving of bite-sized pork sisig, with thin slice of quail egg at its bottom.
OPINION COUNTS…